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Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:03 pm

He looks like Quasimodo.

In other words: yuck.

Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:20 pm

ummm... hey guys, did anybody catch the Decepticon symbol on the top of his shoulders in that last picture?

So much for being Autobot Jetfire.

News Credits: 8 · Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:30 pm

Looks like an alien robot you'd see in an old B-movie but worse. Now i remember why i hate the movie look.

Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:34 pm

Wow! A movie line figure that's freekin hideous! Didn't see that coming...

News Credits: 1 · Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:41 pm

Whoa...that's just....hmm.

I *still* do not understand why they are giving Generation One names to these things. If they have no resemblance in the slightest way to the namesake, why give them that name? If there's no homage to the original, I would rather them be new characters altogether.

Regardless of the name, this toy looks terrible. Like someone else said, it looks like a little Z-Bot from the 90's.

Why do I get the feeling that "Jetfire" is going to be the roaring, non-talking, dimwitted type?

News Credits: 1 · Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:48 pm

Jetfire looks worse than I thought he looks like the shark designs on planes if you know what I'm talking about.

Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:06 pm

Gandalf wrote:Whoa...that's just....hmm.

Why do I get the feeling that "Jetfire" is going to be the roaring, non-talking, dimwitted type?

Because he might be a rehash of Devestator from the first movie. He will put up a huge fight and get killed before he says more than two whole words. Maybe he will just say something in robot "talk" like they did in the first one. Duh...

So much for the smart scientist element. I can't picture a good natured scientist looking like an anorexic G1 Blot with a long robo penis hanging down. He looks like a Transformer that Gwar would tear up in one of their shows. "HangerCon!" LOL!

get it? He looks like a demon possessed clothes hanger and he has a long... :shock:

He does not appear to be modeled after the personality of the G1 Jetfire at all. Again, just make up a new name then.

HangerCon or HangingCon, Nosediver, Ichabot Crane or Hemroidicus Burn (instead of JetFire) would be apt names to choose from.

No doubt the one on the big screen will look better. These mini sized things usually don't do the characters much justice.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:00 pm

This is atrocious. I can't imagine him combining with prime ever.his makes me dread the movie partly now, but half of me is still excited.

Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:37 pm

His face Looks like The Fallen's......

Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:16 pm

Well, I have to say I'm quite pleased. Very vicious-looking, can't wait to see the larger-class toy. TRANSFORMING BLACKBIRD, HELL YEAH.

I understand the comments about reassigning the cool, collected flying bus scientist Jet/Skyfire name to a hulking menace, but really, this isn't G1. It hasn't been for a solid year and a half now. Why is this such a surprise to everyone?

News Credits: 1 · Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:47 pm

AntBot wrote: ...but really, this isn't G1.

Exactly my point.

I can accept Optimus Prime, since there are tons of other Optimus incarnations, and because Movie Prime at least has features that identify him.

All of the others have not a single feature or even color remaining that say "I'm _____". I had no idea who they were on sight alone. If not for the name, I would have thought Bumblebee was Hotshot. :roll:

Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:51 pm

I suspect the actual character and full sized toy will look better (hopefully). This is just meant to be a teaser, much like the 'protoform' toys and such for the first movie, and the movie style just doesn't lend very well to Legends size.

Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:58 pm

Gandalf wrote:
AntBot wrote: ...but really, this isn't G1.

Exactly my point.

I can accept Optimus Prime, since there are tons of other Optimus incarnations, and because Movie Prime at least has features that identify him.

All of the others have not a single feature or even color remaining that say "I'm _____". I had no idea who they were on sight alone. If not for the name, I would have thought Bumblebee was Hotshot.

Eh, name assignment can just be chalked up to ease of reusing existing trademarks or whatnot. Why file for a new one when there's plenty of ones to pick from?

Besides, Bay probably picked Jetfire because IT'S A JET THAT'S USES FIRE MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!